Archive: Alicia H. Munnell
This proposal would undermine support for the program and delay a real solution. My clever friend, and occasional co-author, Andrew Biggs is up to mischief again. He and his lawyer co-author Kristin Shapiro argue that we don’t really need to worry about exhausting the Social Security trust fund because the worst effects could be prevented…
A closer look at the Boeing negotiations only makes the question more puzzling. Boeing workers recently accepted the company’s third offer. The agreement does not include reopening the Boeing defined benefit pension plan, which was cited as the major reason that the union rejected the second offer. Even though the strike is over, I find…
